There's a great new application available for recording modular setups.
Here's Case #1.
Many thanks to Solitud.
Saturday, 17 November 2012
Tuesday, 30 October 2012
Cases 2 and 3 complete
Quite a lot of catching up to do.
Both cases are now complete, using wooden rails as with the first.
They are also using Doepfer DIY power supplies, taken from The Cupboard, the power arriving through an XLR connector, as suggested by Tony at Synovatron.
Here's case #2 at various stages of completion,
Both cases are now complete, using wooden rails as with the first.
They are also using Doepfer DIY power supplies, taken from The Cupboard, the power arriving through an XLR connector, as suggested by Tony at Synovatron.
Here's case #2 at various stages of completion,
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| Case 2 with Kevin |
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| Case 2 framework |
Monday, 1 October 2012
Sunday, 16 September 2012
New Cases
The current plan is to build wood surrounds in both then use the simple screw into wood mounts on one and try the more sophisticated aluminium rails on the other: if the latter works, I might try upgrading the first two cases.
Either way, I'll need two more zeus power supplies plus warts and two more Pittsburgh Outs. I'll start with one of each.
[Later] I have ordered two more Outs from Rhythm Active. Regarding power, given that I am moving away from The Cupboard in favour of smaller units in cases, it would make sense to liberate the power supplies from the Cupboard and use them in the cases, as did Tony of Synovatron.
Friday, 14 September 2012
Instrument 1 Version 2
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| Doepfer A143-4 |
While the Doepfer SoU and the Heisenberg have some discipline, I found the Wogglebug and NoiseRing too chaotic for my purpose, so I will concentrate on the first two.
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| Makenoise Phonogene |
And with a windfall due to arrive, some more esoteric modules are on the cards, notably the Makenoise Phonogene.
And there's a camera fair on Sunday bringing the possibility of a second case.
Wednesday, 29 August 2012
Self-generating patch advice
Taken from a thread on the Doepfer Yahoo group:
From Alan
Hi, sorry if I'm showing my ignorance here, I'm not particularly well informed
in all things modular, but I've a question maybe someone on this group could
answer.
I've been hearing some really interesting recordings using self-generating
patches lately. What are the most useful modules to invest in if I want to go
down this route?
I realise these things don't completely write themselves and a lot of learning
is required in order to set up such pieces, but any advice on where to start
would be helpful.
From David
I tend to use sequencers being driven by slow random clocks (Sample
&Hold or Track &Hold) in to logic module with slow LFO's being mixed
together and sequential switches fed from voltage sources to get as much
randomness as possible. Once the patch starts it will evolve over time
and quite often never repeat.
A number of sequences of different lengths helps here as well as then
the start and end of the patterns also change over time.
It may sound like a lot of modules but you can start with only a few ,
say two LFO's and a mixer and a S&H running at slow speeds driving a
A155 with two different sequence lengths.
From Ernst
I use shitloads of Sample & Holds in tandem with various LFOs and several
A118s to generate random values.
And at least one A149-1 is very useful.
This is one of my patches from my setup link.
From Chris
I enthusiatically second the recommendation of the 149-1. it's random without
being purely entropic (as S&H from white noise is).
I also recommend getting the 149-2 sub-module as well. i have the individual
outs from the 149-2 going into the individual cv inputs of the lower row of
steps on the 155 sequencer. then you clock the upper section of the 149-1 with a
slow trigger from a clock divider, thus each sequencer cycle or x number of
cycles the sequence itself will change semi-randomly. it can be a little tricky
to tune in a sequence on the 155, since the lower row was intended for cv
modulation of steps, not note generation (and the outs from the 149-2 only
generate on/off cv signals), but the whole point of modular synthesis is the
ability to utterly disregard what something is "intended to do" ;-)
Alan again
Thanks for all the useful suggestions, folks. I'd started looking at the
149-1 and figured it might be a major player in such patches. This has
confirmed it for me. It also looks like I'll be getting a S&H and VCLFO,
to augment my 118 and 145. I don't know whether I can afford the rack
space or moolah to run to a 155 just yet. Maybe I'll see what I can get
happening just with a 160, 161 and 166.
From Alan
Hi, sorry if I'm showing my ignorance here, I'm not particularly well informed
in all things modular, but I've a question maybe someone on this group could
answer.
I've been hearing some really interesting recordings using self-generating
patches lately. What are the most useful modules to invest in if I want to go
down this route?
I realise these things don't completely write themselves and a lot of learning
is required in order to set up such pieces, but any advice on where to start
would be helpful.
From David
I tend to use sequencers being driven by slow random clocks (Sample
&Hold or Track &Hold) in to logic module with slow LFO's being mixed
together and sequential switches fed from voltage sources to get as much
randomness as possible. Once the patch starts it will evolve over time
and quite often never repeat.
A number of sequences of different lengths helps here as well as then
the start and end of the patterns also change over time.
It may sound like a lot of modules but you can start with only a few ,
say two LFO's and a mixer and a S&H running at slow speeds driving a
A155 with two different sequence lengths.
From Ernst
I use shitloads of Sample & Holds in tandem with various LFOs and several
A118s to generate random values.
And at least one A149-1 is very useful.
This is one of my patches from my setup link.
From Chris
I enthusiatically second the recommendation of the 149-1. it's random without
being purely entropic (as S&H from white noise is).
I also recommend getting the 149-2 sub-module as well. i have the individual
outs from the 149-2 going into the individual cv inputs of the lower row of
steps on the 155 sequencer. then you clock the upper section of the 149-1 with a
slow trigger from a clock divider, thus each sequencer cycle or x number of
cycles the sequence itself will change semi-randomly. it can be a little tricky
to tune in a sequence on the 155, since the lower row was intended for cv
modulation of steps, not note generation (and the outs from the 149-2 only
generate on/off cv signals), but the whole point of modular synthesis is the
ability to utterly disregard what something is "intended to do" ;-)
Alan again
Thanks for all the useful suggestions, folks. I'd started looking at the
149-1 and figured it might be a major player in such patches. This has
confirmed it for me. It also looks like I'll be getting a S&H and VCLFO,
to augment my 118 and 145. I don't know whether I can afford the rack
space or moolah to run to a 155 just yet. Maybe I'll see what I can get
happening just with a 160, 161 and 166.
Sunday, 19 August 2012
More Manuals
Back from Edinburgh, and back to work on TI.
The first few modules are in the rack and so I'll start with the manuals:
Doepfer A164.1 Manual Gate
Doepfer A150 VC Switch
Makenoise Wogglebug
Plan B Heisenberg
Malekko NoiseRing
Previous instruction listings here.
I'll simplify back to the Doepfer Dream Machine variant then try the different generators.
The first few modules are in the rack and so I'll start with the manuals:
Doepfer A164.1 Manual Gate
Doepfer A150 VC Switch
Makenoise Wogglebug
Plan B Heisenberg
Malekko NoiseRing
Previous instruction listings here.
I'll simplify back to the Doepfer Dream Machine variant then try the different generators.
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